Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi broke the Sage Ancestor of Vast Origin Realm’s Suppress Calligraphy and confronted him within his Spiritual World, leaving the Sage Ancestor astonished. After sealing Xue Shidi and the other Vast Origin Realm cultivators’ escape, Ning Qi summoned three armies and sent them to fight the twenty Self-Severed Dao Integration experts.

• Xue Shidi used the Sage Ancestor’s Suppress Calligraphy to trap Ning Qi, allowing the other Vast Origin Realm cultivators to retreat.
• The Sage Ancestor appeared in Ning Qi’s Spiritual World and acknowledged that his Suppress Character could not subdue him.
• Ning Qi reversed their perspectives with his yin-and-yang eyes, broke free of the curse sigils, and absorbed the Suppress Character.
• Ning Qi sealed Xue Shidi and the others inside the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s boundary, then summoned the armies of the Profound Truth Domain, the Whirling Wind Domain, and the Langya Domain.
• Ning Qi ordered Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, Zhu Yanchuan, and the other commanders to test themselves against the twenty experts, while another Void Shadow emerged from his ring.

Ning Qi equipped his forces to battle the twenty Self-Severed Dao Integration cultivators, but Xue Shidi used the Sage Ancestor’s “Kill” calligraphy to break through the barriers and escape toward the Upper Domain. After Ning Qi assigned his armies to seize the Central Domain’s remaining Nodes, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned him that Dao Harmonization experts from within the realm had targeted him.

• Ning Qi restored Wei Wuyai’s body and raised him to the Body Integration Limit, then assigned him to fight Xue Shidi’s forces alongside Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and Ning Qi’s Exotic Beasts.
• Xue Shidi opened a scroll and released the Sage Ancestor’s “Kill” calligraphy, which broke through the Mountain and Sea Realm barrier and let the twenty cultivators escape toward the Upper Domain.
• Ning Qi chose not to pursue Xue Shidi, explaining that the escape could help intensify the war between the realms, then ordered his Three Domain Army to seize the Central Domain’s last three Nodes.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned Ning Qi that Dao Harmonization experts from the Skyfire Domain, Vine Wood Domain, and Earth Metal Domain had targeted him, and again asked whether he would become its disciple.

Ning Qi learned that the Mountain and Sea Realm's will could not protect him directly, while the Mountain and Sea Realm seized nearly all of the Central Domain's Nodes. Mountain Ancestor arranged to meet three Domain Lords, who asked him for resurrection artifacts and punishment for Ning Qi.

• Ning Qi questioned the Mountain and Sea Realm's will about its wish to take him as a disciple and inferred that Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor constrained it.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm's will left Ning Qi his reward after his army seized the remaining Central Domain Nodes, and Ning Qi considered whether to launch a cross-domain attack.
• Mountain Ancestor learned that Ning Qi had driven off twenty Vast Origin Realm cultivators and said he was a valuable talent who needed protection.
• Mountain Ancestor summoned Fan Cheng, Jin Guanghua, and Mu Qingtian, whose only sons had died or been captured in the War Domain.
• Fan Cheng blamed Ning Qi for their sons' deaths and asked Mountain Ancestor for resurrection artifacts and punishment for Ning Qi.

Fan Cheng and the other Domain Lords received revival pills from Mountain Ancestor and were told they could personally seek revenge on Ning Qi, while Ning Qi led the Three Domain Army through a passage into an unknown Great Domain to evade the Vast Origin Realm’s preparations. The chapter ended with Mountain and Sea Realm Will informing Sea Ancestor that Ning Qi had entered the War Domain.

• Mountain Ancestor gave Fan Cheng, Jin Guanghua, and Mu Qingtian three Life-and-Death Revival Pills and allowed them to personally take revenge on Ning Qi when the time came.
• Mu Qingtian and Jin Guanghua proposed slaughtering Ning Qi’s Profound Truth Domain, but Fan Cheng rejected the plan and led them back to revive their sons.
• Ning Qi examined the Realm Wall and warned Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and Zhu Yanchuan that the Vast Origin Realm might have prepared for their arrival in the Upper Domain.
• Ning Qi used the Mountain and Sea Imprint and support from two Lesser Domains to open a passage across Great Domains, then led the army through it.
• Mountain and Sea Realm Will told Sea Ancestor that Ning Qi had entered the War Domain, and Sea Ancestor rebuked him for calling her a woman.

Sea Ancestor seized the Profound Truth Domain to pressure Ning Qi into becoming her disciple, and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned him that his home was gone. Ning Qi learned the people there were threatened, while he remained in the War Domain facing Sea Ancestor’s demand.

• Sea Ancestor attacked the Profound Truth Domain, and Mountain Ancestor fought back with the Buzhou Mountain Shadow and a Sea Defense Wall.
• Two streaks of Gray Light severed and carried away the Profound Truth Domain, after which Sea Ancestor demanded that Ning Qi become her disciple to protect its inhabitants.
• Ning Qi sensed the upheaval from the True Martial World but only glimpsed the end of the battle between the Two Ancestors.
• Ning Qi arrived with the Three Domain Army in the Southeast War Domain, mapped its nodes, and sent Sword Ancestor and the others to capture them.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will told Ning Qi that Sea Ancestor had taken the Profound Truth Domain and threatened its people unless he agreed to become her disciple.

Ning Qi joined Sea Ancestor’s side and learned that the Central Domain held the fiercest fighting, while Sage Ancestor’s plan to capture him failed when Ning Qi traveled to the North War Domain instead. In the Zheng Nan War Domain, Ning Qi and his allies trapped the Mountain and Sea Realm and Vast Origin Realm armies inside a Blood Killing Formation and appeared before them.

• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will told Ning Qi to help Sea Ancestor’s forces capture Nodes and revealed that the Central Domain was the core battlefield.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will prepared one hundred Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compasses, while Ning Qi directed his forces to capture nearby Nodes and set out to find six hidden ones.
• Sage Ancestor discovered that Ning Qi had crossed into the North War Domain instead of the domain where his forces were waiting, and he vowed to try to capture Ning Qi again.
• Jiang Yuyue, Ren Boping, and Lang Yingying led the Mountain and Sea Realm army against three Vast Origin Realm commanders in the Zheng Nan War Domain.
• A Blood Killing Formation formed from the battlefield’s corpses and trapped both armies inside a giant sphere.
• Ning Qi, Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and their hidden army appeared outside the sphere, and Ning Qi dismissed Sword Ancestor’s concern that the formation was demonic.

Ning Qi rescued Ren Boping, Lang Yingying, Jiang Yuyue, and the surviving Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators, then brought them under his command and led them toward the Southeast War Domain. After crossing into the Central Domain, he gave the three Domain Lords versions of his Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass.

• Ning Qi claimed to serve Sea Ancestor, freed the Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators from the Blood Sphere Formation, and crushed the Vast Origin Realm army inside it into a Blood Pearl.
• Ning Qi revealed that his army had already taken every remaining node in the domain and invited Ren Boping, Lang Yingying, and Jiang Yuyue to join his campaign to conquer the Southeast War Domain.
• Ning Qi ordered the Sea Ancestor and Mountain Ancestor factions to cooperate under his authority, then led both armies through a Cross-Domain Gate.
• Lang Yingying openly asked whether Ning Qi was married, but he rejected romance and led the army onward; Jiang Yuyue warned her to learn more about Ning Qi before approaching him.
• After the group reached the Central Domain, Ning Qi discovered that the three Domain Lords had never received his Spirit-Seeking Node Discernment Compass and made reduced-function versions for them.

Ning Qi led the allied armies to rescue the Sea Ancestor’s cultivators, pacify the Southeast War Domain, and claim its Nodes. As the Mountain and Sea Realm Will explained how the barriers would open, Ning Qi realized his unusual nature could let him tip the war in his own favor and asked what to do next.

• Ning Qi negotiated for half of the remaining Nodes in the Central Domain and took command of Ren Boping, Jiang Yuyue, and Lang Yingying’s troops.
• Ning Qi concealed the combined army, teleported it to the Central Domain battlefield, and led it to rescue Qing Chu Lan and defeat the Vast Origin Realm cultivators.
• Ning Qi assigned the newly rescued forces to seize the Central Domain’s remaining Nodes while he claimed its six Hidden Nodes.
• Ning Qi led the army into the Lower Domain, claimed its Hidden Nodes, and helped seize its final Node, completing the pacification of the Southeast War Domain.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will explained that the barriers would open after the Realm Wall’s power was absorbed and the space stabilized.
• Ning Qi recognized that his nature as both a human and a world made him an anomaly, then asked the Mountain and Sea Realm Will what he should do next.

Ning Qi received a Fragmented Leaf from the Mountain and Sea Realm Will that could shield him from the Vast Origin Realm Will’s perception, then conquered the Southwest War Domain. As Dao Integration cultivators prepared to enter the War Domain, both realms mobilized for the coming escalation, while Ning Qi strengthened the Profound Truth Domain Army and awaited the War Domain’s stabilization.

• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned Ning Qi to avoid the Central Domain and gave him a Fragmented Leaf that could shield him from perception if he wore it.
• Ning Qi led his army into the Southwest War Domain and conquered it, while allowing a fleeing Domain Lord to take a Compass that revealed Nodes and cultivator positions and concealed its crafting method.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will warned Ning Qi that the Vast Origin Realm Will and Sage Ancestor had laid measures in the Western Domain as the Southeast War Domain neared stability and Dao Integration cultivators prepared to enter.
• Sea Ancestor welcomed Ning Qi’s victories, while Mountain Ancestor began dispatching Self-Severed Dao Integration cultivators and Sage Ancestor ordered the Vast Origin Realm to copy Ning Qi’s Compass and prepare Breakthrough Pills for defenders.
• Sikong Xuan and Fan Cheng’s group volunteered to enter the War Domain, while Ning Qi used seized resources to strengthen the Profound Truth Domain Army and accumulated forty-eight Hidden Node spaces for the True Martial World.

Ning Qi secretly traveled through the war domains, harvesting Hidden Nodes while his Compass revealed how both sides used its maps to locate their opponents. After the Mountain and Sea Realm Will summoned him back for the arrival of Dao Harmonization cultivators, a hundred descended in the Southwest War Domain, where several threatened Qi Keqing and Zhu Yanchuan’s forces and Sword Ancestor stepped forward to defend them.

• Ning Qi crossed into the Due West Realm under concealment, and the Vast Origin Realm Will searched the Central Domain but failed to detect him.
• Ning Qi used his Compass to track the Vast Origin Realm’s sub-compasses, harvested Hidden Nodes across the war domains, and watched both sides use the maps to find nodes and enemies.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will told Ning Qi that Dao Harmonization cultivators were about to descend, so Ning Qi returned to the Southwest War Domain.
• One hundred Dao Unification cultivators arrived in the Southwest War Domain and learned that Ning Qi had helped their juniors and strengthened the Profound Truth Domain’s army.
• Qi Shanling and two other Dao Unification cultivators moved to seize Qi Keqing, Zhu Yanchuan, and their companions, but Sword Ancestor declared he would protect them and drew his sword.

Sword Ancestor defended the three-domain cultivators from Qi Shanling, meeting his Dao Unification attack with a sword strike that severed Qi Shanling’s arm. Inspired by Sword Ancestor and Ning Qi’s teachings, the army overcame its fear and formed a Heaven-Slaying Sword as Qi Shanling transformed into a divine mountain to crush them.

• Sword Ancestor stepped in to protect the three-domain cultivators, and Qi Shanling attacked him with an earth-rule Giant Palm.
• Sword Ancestor countered with “One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Laws” and split Qi Shanling’s palm, impressing the other Dao Unification cultivators.
• Qi Shanling grew jealous of Sword Ancestor’s potential, transformed into a rule giant, and advanced; Sword Ancestor severed his right hand with another strike.
• Sword Ancestor reminded Qi Shanling that he had no family or sect to threaten, while the three-domain cultivators recalled Ning Qi’s teachings and overcame their fear.
• Qi Keqing called on the army to help Sword Ancestor, and the three-domain cultivators formed a wartime formation and gathered their power into a Heaven-Slaying Sword.
• Qi Shanling transformed himself into a divine mountain and descended to crush the army as Gao Qiu and Liu Fuping prepared to intervene if necessary.

The Three Domain Army used Ning Qi’s Heavenly Lotus Reverse Slash Sword to pierce Qi Shanling’s Dao Harmonization Body, forcing Liu Fuping and Gao Qiu to rescue him. As the three Old Ancestors tried to seal and destroy the army, Sword Ancestor prepared to unleash another art, but Ning Qi appeared inside their formation and stopped him.

• Qi Shanling descended to crush the Three Domain Army, but their Heavenly Lotus Reverse Slash Sword pierced his heart and shredded his Dao Harmonization Body with countless Rule Swords.
• Liu Fuping and Gao Qiu entered the spell-sword’s Rule Swords, freed Qi Shanling, and removed the Rule Needles embedded in his body.
• Qi Shanling urged Liu Fuping and Gao Qiu to eliminate the Three Domain Army and seize the dangerous art, and the three surrounded the army with a Three Talents Sealing Formation.
• Sword Ancestor told Qi Keqing and the others to retreat, then flew toward Qi Shanling and began releasing Five-Colored Light and strange gray energy that triggered signs of a Dao Harmonization Tribulation.
• Ning Qi appeared inside the Three Talents Sealing Formation, halted Sword Ancestor, and caused the gathering heavenly phenomena to dissipate.

Ning Qi returned just in time to suppress Sword Ancestor’s seal and then confronted the Dao Harmonization cultivators attacking the Three Domain Army. He killed Gao Qiu, Liu Fuping, and Qi Shanling in a few dozen breaths, then tempered and returned the gathered Dharma Weapons, leaving the other cultivators stunned.

• Ning Qi stopped Sword Ancestor from releasing his seal, restoring his clarity and making the Dao Harmonization phenomena vanish.
• Ning Qi rebuked Gao Qiu, Liu Fuping, and Qi Shanling for using the Three Talents Sealing Formation against the Three Domain cultivators.
• Ning Qi used the Myriad Paths Wandering Dragon Sword to break the formation’s Rule Walls and kill Gao Qiu.
• Ning Qi caught Liu Fuping despite his Wind Rule transformation and killed him, then destroyed Qi Shanling’s Primordial Mountain Spirit body.
• Ning Qi gathered the cultivators’ Dharma Weapons, tempered them with Dao Fire, and returned them to their owners.

Ning Qi returned to the Southwest Realm, reported that the Vast Origin Realm had taken the West Domain, and prepared the armies for the coming Dao Integration battle. In the Southeast War Domain, the newly arrived sect leaders reunited with their disciples, while Sikong Xuan focused on finding Ning Qi and seeking revenge.

• Ning Qi returned the refined Dharma Weapons, shared intelligence about the West Domain, and received the Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s order to prepare for battle.
• Qi Keqing chose to keep the Whirling Wind Domain army with Ning Qi, while Zhu Yanchuan and the Langya Domain army returned to their sect leaders.
• In the Southeast War Domain, Fang Daoming, Wang Tenghai, and the other newly arrived Dao Integration cultivators searched for their missing disciples; Sikong Xuan vowed to hunt down Ning Qi.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will summoned the sect leaders and told them their disciples were alive, then had Ning Qi bring the Langya Domain army to meet them.
• Fang Daoming learned that Qi Keqing had left the Whirling Wind Domain army in the Southwest Realm, while Wang Tenghai reunited with Zhu Yanchuan and the Langya Domain cultivators.
• A Green Shadow suddenly flew up before Ning Qi and asked whether he was Ning Qi.

Ning Qi killed Sikong Xuan after revealing that he had once disguised himself as Slashing Profound Exalted Lord, then learned that the Mountain and Sea Realm Will wanted him to ambush Vast Origin Realm Dao Harmonization cultivators. He accepted a complete Withered Leaf and other rewards for the dangerous task, and asked what would happen to the army under his command.

• Sikong Xuan challenged Ning Qi over the Azure Profound Sect's dead, but Ning Qi slapped him twice and proved overwhelmingly stronger.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will backed Ning Qi, and Ning Qi crushed Sikong Xuan after revealing that he had been Slashing Profound Exalted Lord in disguise.
• Qi Keqing and Zhu Yanchuan told Fang Daoming and Wang Tenghai about Ning Qi's accomplishments, prompting Fang Daoming to understand why the Two Ancestors had fought over the Profound Truth Domain.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will asked Ning Qi to ambush Vast Origin Realm Dao Harmonization cultivators, and Ning Qi negotiated for protection and rewards.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will gave Ning Qi a complete Withered Leaf, one hundred Large Rule Shards, and one hundred streams of Mountain and Sea Realm Power; Ning Qi then asked about the army under his command.

Ning Qi accepted Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s request to fight in the coming war, then used a Withered Leaf Treasure to infiltrate the Northeast Realm and impersonate a Vast Origin Realm cultivator. He learned about the Sage Ancestor and the Vast Origin Realm Will before the Vast Origin Realm announced an attack on the Due North Spirit Realm, creating an opening for Ning Qi’s plans.

• Ning Qi agreed to Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s terms and told his allies to delay their breakthroughs while he helped them prepare for the battle.
• Ning Qi used his Compass to enter the Northeast Realm, ambushed Hao Dongyang, and questioned him about the Vast Origin Realm.
• Ning Qi learned that the Sage Ancestor was the Vast Origin Realm Will’s master, then searched Hao Dongyang’s soul and assumed his identity.
• Disguised as Hao Dongyang, Ning Qi collected supplies and mingled among Vast Origin Realm cultivators while considering how to intensify the conflict and enter the Vast Origin Realm.
• Vast Origin Realm Will announced that it would help open the Realm Wall to the Due North Spirit Realm and send Early Dao Harmonization Realm cultivators to attack.

Ning Qi’s incarnation helped the Vast Origin Realm seize two more War Domains, then he studied both realms’ power to uncover the histories recorded within it. After the Mountain and Sea Realm ambushed an advance force in the Central Domain, Ning Qi watched over his reincarnated allies and began crafting a versatile magic artifact for them.

• Hao Dongyang joined the Vast Origin Realm’s force into the Due North Realm, which they conquered before taking the Northwest Realm as well.
• Ning Qi refined Mountain and Sea Realm power and Vast Origin Realm power, gaining visions of how each world had developed.
• Mountain Ancestor learned that the Vast Origin Realm had seized two domains and ordered his forces to take the Due East and Central Realms.
• Ning Qi volunteered to scout the Central Domain, where a Mountain and Sea Realm ambush wiped out half of the advance force; he faked his death and observed the battlefield unseen.
• Ning Qi found many of his True Martial World reincarnates in the Central Domain and began forging an artifact combining offense, defense, communication, and a map.

Ning Qi secretly distributed True Martial Watches and began constructing a hidden formation across the War Domain while the two realms’ main forces entered the battlefield. Fan Cheng and his sworn brothers searched for Ning Qi to exact revenge, but Leng Qing'ao confronted them after learning Sea Ancestor had ordered her to protect him and the Profound Truth Domain cultivators.

• Ning Qi crafted True Martial Watches for selected True Martial World Reincarnated People, then began engraving a concealed Grand Formation across the War Domain.
• The Sage Ancestor learned through divination that Ning Qi might hold the opportunity for his breakthrough and ordered Zhi Li to investigate him.
• As the War Domain stabilized, the two realms’ main armies entered, and Fan Cheng, Jin Guanghua, and Mu Qingtian arrived in the Southern Domain seeking Ning Qi.
• A cultivator reported that Ning Qi had killed three Dao Integration Cultivators and an Azure Profound Sect Old Ancestor, but his whereabouts were unknown.
• Fan Cheng and his sworn brothers planned to draw Ning Qi out by targeting his allies, until Leng Qing'ao confronted them and challenged their intentions.

Ning Qi completed the hidden array inscriptions across the Southern Domain and prepared secret array cores as the two realms opened the final Realm Walls. The battle for the War Domain began as both sides charged into the newly connected domains.

• Leng Qing'ao confronted Fan Cheng and two other Domain Lords to protect Ning Qi, forcing them to withdraw as Sea Ancestor's cultivators gathered around her.
• Ning Qi reassured Sword Ancestor and the others that he was safe, then continued carving array inscriptions across the Southern Domain's Realm Wall.
• Ning Qi's study of the two realms' power strengthened the Five Elements Divine Chains, increasing their yearly production of Rule Sources for the True Martial World from five to eight.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will told Sea Ancestor that the reinforced Central Domain would be contested by the main forces, while Sea Ancestor questioned his investment in Ning Qi and the Withered Leaf.
• Ning Qi completed the Southern Domain's array and hid its cores inside the remnants of Hidden Nodes before the two realms broke through the final Realm Walls.
• The Realm Walls shattered, the opposing forces stabilized themselves amid the clash of realm power, and cultivators from both sides charged into battle.

Ning Qi scouted the Central Domain, reported the Vast Origin Realm's forces to the Mountain and Sea Realm Will, and learned that the war would soon escalate into an assault on the two Spirit Realms. He agreed to draw the enemy's attention in exchange for power from Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, and the chapter ended as the Mountain and Sea Realm Will presented him with three glowing objects.

• Ning Qi entered the Central Domain and observed the armies assembling on either side of the Red Line, led by Jiang Yingchu, Gong Tiandao, and Zhao Yujun.
• Ning Qi returned to the outer ring and reported the Vast Origin Realm's forces and key figures to the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will explained that the final battle would begin after the War Domain's Realm Walls were destroyed, opening a route to attack the enemy's Spirit Realm.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will asked Ning Qi to reveal himself and draw the enemy's attention, and Ning Qi agreed on the condition that he receive powers to counter the Vast Origin Realm Will and Sage Ancestor.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm Will returned with three glowing objects containing the requested powers, and Ning Qi asked what they were and how to use them.